[Barrin92]

It's getting worse and worse in my opinion. There's so many perverse mechanics now, Gacha games being at the forefront of it. Money is always necessary to develop games, but we've gone from a situation were money was a resource to creative genuinely creative works that had merit to a point where the game itself is just a mechanism to create revenue.

In the process the games themselves degrade. Addictive mechanisms are added, stories are dragged out or split into DLCs, money distorts competition between players, games are designed to waste the players time, and so forth.

And the problem is not just the industry or 'capitalism' or whatever, I think culturally we also have lost the ability to talk about entertainment critically. Games that are glorified slot machines should be called out for it, parents should tell their kids not to play them, and people need to start valuing their attention.